Saint Boniface

Saint Boniface

(sānt bŏn`ĭfās), former city and historic community, SE Man., Canada, on the Red River opposite Winnipeg. It is now part of Winnipeg. It is an industrial center, with large stockyards and meatpacking plants, oil refineries, flour mills, and breweries. St. Boniface was founded in 1818 as a Roman Catholic mission. Many of the inhabitants are French-speaking. A Roman Catholic cathedral is there, as is St. Boniface College, affiliated with the Univ. of Manitoba.

Boniface, Saint,

d. 1009, German missionary, known also by his lay name, Bruno of Querfurt. He evangelized the Balts and died a martyr. He is known as the Apostle of the Prussians. Feast: June 19.

Boniface, Saint

(bŏn`ĭfəs, –fās), c.675–754?, English missionary monk and martyr, called the Apostle of Germany, b. Devonshire, England. His English name was Winfrid. He was educated in the monastery of Nursling, near Winchester. In 716 he made his first trip to Friesland to aid the mission of St. Willibrord, but unsettled conditions forced his return to England. In 718 he left England for Rome where Pope Gregory II encouraged his missionary zeal and gave him the name Boniface. Under the protection of the Frankish ruler Charles Martel, Boniface and his companions made many converts in Thuringia, Hesse, Franconia, and Bavaria. His chopping down of Thor's famed sacred oak at Fritzlar symbolized the advance of Christianity in pagan Germany. He established an orderly Christianity there closely tied to the papacy. He became regionary bishop (722) and metropolitan of Germany (731), creating new bishoprics under the supervision of his English disciples. He founded monasteries at Reichenau (724), Murbach (728), and FuldaFulda, city (1994 pop. 58,710), Hesse, central Germany, on the Fulda River. It is a banking and financial center. Manufactures include textiles and clothing. Fulda grew around a Benedictine abbey founded in 744 by Sturmius, a pupil of St. Boniface, the missionary......Click the link for more information. (744), which became important centers of learning. As papal legate he reformed (c.745) the decaying Frankish Church. He was consecrated (745) archbishop of MainzMainz, city (1994 pop. 185,487), capital of Rhineland-Palatinate, W Germany, a port on the E bank of the Rhine River opposite the mouth of the Main River. Its French name, also sometimes used in English, is Mayence......Click the link for more information.. He was martyred by pagans in Friesland. Feast: June 5.

considering that rival was in middle of a golden run of form, Makin must have been very happy with Saint Boniface that day - especially as he was entering unchartered territory from a distance perspective.

He has previously studied at the College universitaire de Saint Boniface and his research interests include federalism, comparative politics, issues related to language and intergovernmental relations.

Today, Shelly Glover, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance and Member of Parliament for Saint Boniface, on behalf of the Honourable Lynne Yelich, Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification, announced additional support for improvements to Winnipeg s community infrastructure under the Harper Government s Community Infrastructure Improvement Fund (CIIF).

His heroes are neither the sectarians nor the secularizers, but the 'Master Builders of Christian culture' through the ages--Saint Paul and Saint Augustine, Saint Leo and Saint Gregory the Great, Saint Benedict and Saint Boniface, Saint Bernard and Pope Gregory VII, Saint Francis and Saint Dominic--the list could go on.

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